The law student is leading a new initiative to help former inmates find employment.

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Kim Kardashian has conquered the reality world, become a hugely successful businesswoman with her mobile game apps and makeup line, and now she’s using her platform as one of the most famous people in the world to help fight for those who don’t have a voice. Specifically, Kardashian is working to reform the US criminal justice system. Not bad for a girl with no talent.

Kardashian was a guest speaker at the White House on Thursday, where she was introduced by President Donald Trump. Calling her a very special guest and powerful advocate, Trump noted that he knew Kardashian’s late father, lawyer Robert Kardashian, and said that Kim was “a good person,” adding that “soon she’ll be one of the most successful lawyers.”

Sitting between Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, Kardashian began her remarks by thanking the pair for helping her gain access to the White House and specifically Trump. Kardashian first worked with the president in 2018 and urged him to grant clemency to Alice Marie Johnson, a woman who was sentenced to life in prison for her first drug offence. Trump commuted Johnson’s sentence after serving 21 years, with Kardashian fighting for the great-grandmother and bringing national attention to the case. Kardashian’s involvement with Johnson sparked a new passion, with the TV star helping to free 17 inmates and announcing earlier this year in Vogue that she is studying to become a lawyer.

“My whole journey with criminal justice reform started about a year ago when I came to see the president after speaking to Ivanka and Jared who really fought for me to get here. I spent so much time going to different prisons because I really had no connection to anybody on the inside and really just felt like for me, I’m at the place in my life that I wanted to make a difference and just wanted to do the right thing, but I didn’t know how or what to do or even really what was going on,” she said Thursday.

During this week’s visit to the White House Kardashian was joined by her mentors, lawyers Erin Haney and Jessica Jackson. “After going to visit so many different prisons and really sitting down with lifers with every situation you can possibly imagine my heart just completely opened up and I wanted to do more,” continued Kardashian. “So I started to study the law, which is law school basically in California, and my attorneys are here, Erin and Jessica from #cut50.”

Working with Haney and Jackson, Kardashian has helped put together a new initiative that will provide free rides to and from job interviews and work sites for people who have been recently incarcerated. “These people want to work they want the best outcome,” said Kardashian, who tweeted about the new initiative, which President Trump vocally supported on Thursday.

While I have been able to offer support to some of the individuals I have met, the obstacles to success are an everyday struggle for thousands and more needs to be done.

Proud to partner on this initiative with @Lyft, a company with a history of taking bold action to do what’s right for our community. Thank you for providing ride share credits to formally incarcerated people when they come home.